The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-10

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Sweet potatoes that would weigh five
pounds, were raised by j. c. Stapp, near
Oxford this year.
The orange groves around Seville are re-
ported to be doing well, and in thrifty
growing condition.
Ocala will ha re two national banks next
| month. The second one Will be known as
the Merchants National.
Several carloads of lumber were received
last week for the erection Of new buildings
in Poppell's Addition to Seville.
BY the granting Of the liquor licenses at
Palatka the State is richer by s., 800, and
the city and county 81 400 each.
The dissolution notice Of Baker Bros, of
Seville, appears. X. c. Davis having re
tired, W r. Baker will continue the hnsi-
ness.
At Palatka Saturday Collector Price re
ceived $3.50 in $40 and 500 gold pieces that
looked as though they had been boarded for
years.
The canal. which Is being cut by the Sc
vile Company, from Lake Louise into up
per Lake Louise, is rapidly nearing com
! pletion.
South-bound freight trains are all heavily
! loaded. On Wednesday evening thirty car
loads of brick passed over the road for South
| Florida.
Notice is given that the Board of Health
of Putnam county declares quarantine
against Tampa. Officers are stationed on
the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West ard
the Florida Southern railways
The man who robbed Kersting's drug store
at Palatka, has been. caught at Jackson
vile, Marshal Hernandez writes to Mar
! shall Manucy that he can have the youu z
man by coming after him. The keys taken
! Il 81 in ba
boys room.
At the meeting of the Clay County Com
missioners, on Monday, it was resolved to
take action upon the suggestion of the grand
| jury, and offer a reward of $500 for the ar
| rest and conviction of the murderer or muir
derers of Grant Connor. The board also
! solicited Gov. Perry to offer like reward.
A large covey of cartridges have taken
up homestead in the Green Cove Spring
| Park. These birds are as reckless as they
are insolent, and their numbers are rapidly
diminishing from the effects of we'll
directed stones, with which several persons
have scored bird, one party having killed
two birds at one throw.
A trestle on the Western railway. at
! Highland branch, caught fire on Wednesday
evening, and so damaged the structure that
trains have been unable to pass over the
road since that date A large force of
workmen are repairing the trestle, and it
was expected that the only engine now in
use, and which is on the western end of the
road, would be able TO cross Saturday.
Saturday Oct 1. while Harry Sans. of
New Smyrna was fishing near the piles at
the mouth Of the creek that leads to Bryans
store, he heard humming sound which
grew louder and louder, and presently
meteorolte, rendered red hot by by its pas
sage through the air, struck the water some
fifty yards from his boat and disappeared
amid cloud of smoke and shower of
spray Harry pulled up his anchor and got
away from there.
A little steamer, the Susie May, belong
ing to Capt. Nanderpool, "A fisherman, was
burned on Tuesday last at Red Bay Point,
short distance above Green Cove. The
crew left the boat at anchor at the point
named, and came down to Green Cove in
the morning, and upon returning at noon
found that the steamer had burned during
their absence. The steamer was 40 feet long
and II feet beam. Her hull and boiler were
saved, and the owner will have her rebuilt
Immediately.
S. Sanders Neck is in communication
with Dr. Bronson, of the Birmingham or
Diagonal road. The doctor will be in
Ocala soon. The road will be built, and
will pass i'll nearly direct line from Ocala
to Bronson in one direction, and Moss Bluff
in the other. With this new road; the ex-
tension of the Silver Springs, Orlando and
Gulf the erection of two fine school build
ings, one for the white youth and the other
for the colored; the remodeling and enlarg
ing of the court house; water works, cleo
trio lights, paved streets, and sober peo-
pie, Ocala is bound to ''whiz.n
The steamer w. G. Little, of the Choctaw-
hatchie river, will Immediately go to Black
water to be dOcked for the repair of dam
ages sustained when she was sunk a few
months ago. The Raisin Fertilizer Com
pany have contracted for the building of
another steamer to be used on the Choctaw-
hatchie, and the vessels construction
is under way at Milton. The new
boat will be 40 feet in length by 70 feet in
beam, with 30-inch guards The machinery
of the defunct Little Anna, which is almost
as good as new, will be used on the new
boat, which win be completed in sixty
days
st. Andrews Messenger: The originators
of some very ridi culous and scandalous
stories which are SO greedily listened to ana
industriously peddled from mouth to mouth,
among the male and female gossipers of this
little town, are very little if any worse than
the ones who keep passing them around,
and the whole clique of scandal-mongers
are liable to suddenly find themselves in
trouble, A years Imprisonment, or a fine
of one thousand dollars, or both such fine
and imprisonment, is the penalty for libel
in this State, and vigorous application of
1t would teach some in this community a
lesson they would not soon forget.
Strange as it may seem, the County Com
missioners have declared that there has been
no election held on the wet" and dry
subject in fernando county. The saloons
are wide open, dispensing the wet article.
Each saloon on Saturday Oct. |, deposited
with the Comfy Clerk the necessary
amount for license. The difficulty seems to
be that, as the Supervisors of Registration
and County Judge received the returns as
they came in and subsequently turned them
over to the County Clerk, making affidavit
that they were turned over as received, the
Clerk holds that no returns have been re-
ceived by him. The Commissioners allowed
bills to-day of inspection of election, held
Sept. 26 Everything is moving along
quietly and no trouble is anticipated. The
county being wet by majority, the public
seem disposed to abide by the result
SOUTH CAROLINA.